BIOS Problems, IE Hijacked, and Help Building a DX10 Rig

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Bios problems!I recently built a new PC. I tried to OC it and screwed something up. I have an ASUS p5k motherboard. The problem is that it doesn’t display anything; i thought perhaps i went a little too much. Is there anyway that i could reset the bios manually on the board? or perhaps i should get a new board, i could return it for another. Any ideas? I really need help and appreciate any help given :)

Ubuntu install “Prepare Disk” Space hanging for over 2 hours!It has been over 2 hours and the action has not completed. The mouse icon simply spins. I can move the mouse and select icons on the desktop. However, I am afraid to cancel out because I don’t want to destroy my existing XP portion.

I need help with a hard disk!I’m selling my broken laptop but it still has a 40g hard drive in it. I took it out of another laptop so it obviously won’t boot off of it. How can I DELETE everything off of the hard drive without re-installing windows?

Is this build adequate for DX10 games?I keep reading all these system requirements for all the games coming out next month, and some of them have me a little worried. I built my rig in June for the very purpose of playing these upcoming games at a high level of performance, but it seems like I may have short changed myself a little according to what I’m seeing.

The Golden OldieEach week we’ll pick a Top Tip from the past for your reading enjoyment.

Internet Explorer has been hijacked! I Need Help… I think my PC have attack by unknown virus or worm… My IE kind of hijacked… Each time i open my IE, it will directly go to ieupdate.com sometime, i open this website, and it went to idnerror.com. I get pretty frustrated…And i got something in my ‘Add and Remove Program’. I got a program called Search Bar. I can’t delete it there. Can somebody help me in this problem…? Anyway, is MPAPI3.exe a virus or not?

Tech Support: Cries for Help! If you have a moment please be a good Samaritan and drop by with your input into the problems these folks are trying to figure out.

Help with install PCLOS on RAID driveI installed PCLOS 2007 on my secondary machine as dual boot with VISTA and it is working very well compared to different distros I have tried. ATI VC (Radeon 1650 pro) drivers are finally installed and working fine. Also 3D desktop is working. Now I am trying to install PCLOS 2007 on my primary system which has Asus P5B Deluxe mobo and 3 HDDs in RAID 0 setup. VISTA is installed on one partition C (sda1) and I want to install Linux on D (sda2). The problem is that on installation PCLOS seems does not recognizing the RAID array and only sees 3 independent HDDs. So I quit the installation, feeling that something is wrong and would destroy my primary OS (VISTA). Any help what to do first before installing Linux. May be Linux needs some kind of RAID drivers to be installed first like the Win XP.

Tape backup for centos server? I want to backup a server using tapes backup, but the problem is that its a centos ver5.server and i have no idea how to do it?

I have a drive – I will call it H:. I have a bunch of folders inside of it each named with five different characters (00000, 00001, 00002 and so on going up to 80000). Inside of those five digit folders are additional folders but none of them should be five digit folders like the parent folder. How can I query all 80000 of these folders to see if there are any five digit folders inside of five digit folders? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for any responses

Rockbox themes? I was just wondering how to put themes on Rockbox. I read from a thread that you just extract to the root of the .rockbox folder……but it didn’t do anything-as in i didn’t see the new themes. Or even the files. What to do? The manual just tells where to get them, not how to put them on.

Good fax software? My question to all is there any other fax software that has the same features that WinFax has that I could buy…?

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